Fixing the Dust Bowl: A Climate Change Parable

This conversation with Timothy Egan, a former media fellow with the Bill Lane Center and the National Book Award-winning author of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, will look at perhaps the largest, most sustained human-caused environmental disaster, the Dust Bowl, and the effort by the Roosevelt Administration to repair damage to a huge swath of the American midsection. It's useful for today, in that this was a precursor to human-caused global warming.  The massive repair effort, sometimes comical, sometimes irrational, but earnest as well, showed that environmental restoration is not a lost cause.

Speaker: Timothy Egan

Room 101